AROUND the world and back again. I hardly know where to begin. I cannot say life has gone according to plan simply due to the fact that I rarely ever had one. I have worked in business, national security, back to business, back to national security, and am now teaching and conducting research at an applied intelligence program.

As much as I would love to be a hedgehog, the creature who digs deeply into a singular subject, given the interdisciplinary approach to my research and studies, I am afraid that I remain the fox - interested in everything and anything that speaks to the mice in my brain.

In short, I am a deconstructionist. I have spent a career pulling apart systems, operations, and problems to see what makes them tick. Occasionally, I also put them back together. The context may change, the tool of analysis are always fluid, but the skill remains the same. And the messier or more difficult the problem space, the better.

Information Sciences is fun sandbox in which to play. Looking at the intersection of people, data, and technology includes many disciplines where you can ask so many glorious questions. Social Media is my sandbox within the sandbox. Which is amusing because I am a quasi-Luddite in my personal preferences when it comes to employing the medium. Still, it is a big, messy, fantastic world to explore.